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Scheme · 09-29-2004, 03:24 AM

The best thing to do would be to use Mozilla Firefox http://www.mozilla.org I've been using this for months and I've had no spyware, I run ad aware and use Ie, and in about a week it's crawling with spyware. GET FIREFOX

scarface · 10-11-2004, 10:07 AM

°°°

I know those goods and they're a gift from heaven .

Thx to the makers of them , and to the poster of this thread

Senor Roboto · 12-12-2004, 03:04 AM

alright so I downloaded and ran all four of those programs and I still have a couple of stupid things called Home Search and Extended Search that I can't get rid of in the add/remove program thing and won't leave after running these programs!

0energy0 · 12-18-2004, 10:03 PM

i prefer adaware and bps spyware remover. its effective for me.

0energy0 · 12-18-2004, 10:04 PM

also, upgrade to windows xp sp2

wgheow · 12-25-2004, 04:59 AM

woah...spybots everywhere..thanks guys for the help !

m0rpheus · 02-24-2005, 06:05 AM

And TFP comes through for me once again! Thanks.

pattycakes · 02-25-2005, 10:18 PM

microsoft antispyware beta

ScottKuma · 02-27-2005, 06:43 AM

Another important thing, especially if you have broadband internet, is the use of a hardware/NAT firewall. It won't help with nastys that install themselves through IE/Firefox, but it will help against virus & popups sent in other ways (Windows Messenger, for example).

IC3 · 03-01-2005, 06:16 PM

I just downloaded ad-aware and it found 49 objects.

I'm not really sure how this works, I took the free version so does this mean i have to do manual updates? Manual scans? and does it work like anti virus and blocks anything that try's to get onto my system? Or do i have to scan like 5 times a day to keep my system cleaned?

Thanks.

Slavakion · 03-01-2005, 07:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IC3

I just downloaded ad-aware and it found 49 objects.

I'm not really sure how this works, I took the free version so does this mean i have to do manual updates? Manual scans? and does it work like anti virus and blocks anything that try's to get onto my system? Or do i have to scan like 5 times a day to keep my system cleaned?

Thanks.

I don't think that any spyware scanners will block spyware. Spybot-S&D comes with its "Resident" which watches your registry for changes to startup programs. The best way to keep your system spyware-free is to not use IE, use a firewall, and watch what sites you go to and what you download.

IC3 · 03-01-2005, 07:31 PM

Thanks..I thought this was a program that i needed to keep open at all times.

I have nothing bad to say about IE, This is the first time ever i have had spyware remover on this system (New) and never had it on my old computer (roughly 5 years)..And i have never really had any problems at all.

I just thought i would get spyware remover just to be safe as this is a new system.

Even on my old system i went atleast 2 years without anti virus and just a firewall, Then decided i should get some anti virus..got home scanned the whole system and it was clean

FloydianOne · 03-01-2005, 09:04 PM

Anyone else notice some sites have found ways around Firefox's popup blocker? Ive been getting a few popunders here and there recently.

pinoychink790 · 03-01-2005, 09:09 PM

all of those programs are so cool!!! unfortunately they can't remove the spyware on my pc right now

0energy0 · 03-08-2005, 10:05 AM

I still keep getting pop-ups. I have wondows xp sp2, ad-aware se, pop-up stopper pro, and adware away. What else do I need? Everytime i place counter-strike, pop-ups keep coming up and i still don't know how to stop them. Is my computer hacked?

ScottKuma · 03-08-2005, 10:38 AM

You may have some malware running that

a) doesn't get cleared/detected by your anti-spybot stuff
b) is actually a virus. have you downloaded an AV program?

Your only recourse in some cases is to rebuild the computer from scratch.

Also, are you running from behind a firewall? If so - you don't have the DMZ turned on for your computer, do you? Some people do this to make gaming easier...but what it really does is put your computer -- naked, so to speak -- directly out on the net.

ScottKuma · 03-08-2005, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FloydianOne

Anyone else notice some sites have found ways around Firefox's popup blocker? Ive been getting a few popunders here and there recently.

Yeah, as Firefox gets more popular, people start working on ways around teh popup blocker.

Using flash to launch a new window seems popular.

the_dave · 04-03-2005, 10:02 PM

I feel good. I just cleaned my computer of any VD's with adware, spyware and pop up blockers.
lifes good with a faster computer.

Slavakion · 04-06-2005, 09:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 0energy0

I still keep getting pop-ups. I have wondows xp sp2, ad-aware se, pop-up stopper pro, and adware away. What else do I need? Everytime i place counter-strike, pop-ups keep coming up and i still don't know how to stop them. Is my computer hacked?

I recently had something like this. I had some nasty stuff that kept regenerating "ebates" registry entries. And some program called elitehzd32.exe kept embedding itself in my system process. Ad-Aware, Spybot, and HijackThis were powerless. I had to reformat... the day after reformatting. That was a record for me.

Every 10-15 seconds, an ad would popup. Made games unplayable.

Derwood · 05-02-2005, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soopafreek

5. run virus scans. you should visit http://housecall.antivirus.com anytime your machine starts acting up. EVEN IF YOU ALREADY HAVE ANTI-VIRUS INSTALLED. consider it "a second opinion".

I tried that site, and it was so slow I had to stop. It took 5 minutes to scan 60 files. Maybe I need to try at a different time of day?

eeef2 · 05-04-2005, 02:57 PM

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ works best with internet explorer.. its the only time i ever use IE! the 6.0 beta version will clean viruses and spywares.

seven7 · 07-06-2005, 09:32 PM

had the same problem, installed full mcafee suite and no problems

dpezzo · 08-06-2005, 11:23 PM

wow! nice info! I just wished I would have read this topic a week ago. had to do a factory restore of a pc at the office last week due to the popups and homepage hijacking, even after running adaware, and spybot s&d. thanks for the tips, will definitely come in handy next time...

kel · 08-25-2005, 02:59 PM

My mother's computer is now protected. Thanks!

gcurl21 · 04-09-2006, 03:38 PM

Hi-Jack This works great if Adaware or Norton cant detect the spyware. Just choose what shouldnt be running

NotAnAlias · 08-03-2006, 12:01 AM

I've found spybot, adaware and even hijack this to be ineffective against my recent incredibly stupid act. Long live ewido.

jusolson00 · 12-13-2006, 12:30 PM

Hi eveybody,, hope somebody can help me.. lately when surfing around the web and well truthfully around some adult sites, I go to click on a link and it will take me to a different site, but the page url iswww.accessbestpharmacy.com, but the actual website that loads is something different, so that when clinking on links in that site it will always bring up a google search for just random things.. I've used sypot, adaware, hijack this,, but seems to find nothing. Although when i used spybot, it found some www.accessbestpharmacy.com urls, but i delted them.. they never came back but i'm still having the same problem.... anybody else have this??? thanks for the help

Twizted · 05-02-2007, 07:22 PM

(Sigh) After years of being careful, I let my guard down and installed software from a questionable source and now I am greeted daily by some porn pop-up (even while IE and Firefox are closed)

Thanks for this thread... hope I can scrub this one out...

Jason

Temporary_User · 05-10-2007, 07:38 AM

Im having similar problems as jusolson00.
for me ad-aware doesnt seem to want to finish running. that or it pauses halfway for an extremely long time...

even with tfproject.org, i have to type that into the search, then click the link. f i type it into my address bar, it says page not found.
Advice would be appreciated!

boink · 07-07-2007, 12:12 PM

my homepage got hijacked a while back and after a frustrating effort to fix it I just deleted the shortcut to IE onthe desktop and drag/dropped the homepage link to Comcast to the desktop where the IE shortcut used to be.

may be a ghetto solution but it works for me...any reason why it's a bad solution ?
the hijacker was this :
es://shdocpl.dll/blank.htm < don't click on this !

Cynthetiq · 06-23-2008, 05:37 AM

this this has come up again and again recently:

Quote:

Download HijackThis and double click on the file for install.
Download CCleaner. Double click on the file for install.
Download Combofix.
Download SmitfraudFix (by S!Ri). Extract the content (a folder named SmitfraudFix) to your Desktop.

Reboot your computer again in Safe Mode by doing the following:

1. Restart your computer
2. After hearing your computer beep once during startup, but before the Windows icon appears, press F8.
3. Instead of Windows loading as normal, a menu should appear
4. Select the first option, to run Windows in Safe Mode.

Start HijackThis. Click “Do a system scan only.” and put a checkmark next to the following items (if exists):

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://softwarereferral.com/jump.php...MjI6Ojg5&lid=2
O2 - BHO: PC-Antispyware Site Blocker Button - {10F0C2A9-8E38-43e3-204D-45524C494E20} - C:\Program Files\PC-Antispyware\IeExtension.dll
O2 - BHO: GNX Bingo - {B2DCA34E-9D1C-4EDA-A1BE-C24D1B4AAE55} - C:\WINDOWS\kdftlboepta.dll
O2 - BHO: GNX Rolex - {CD6DCA54-AE70-4562-BD9E-0C0A32F01347} - C:\WINDOWS\drnpfdxsnp.dll
O3 - Toolbar: etlrlws - {13F5AE57-486D-41B6-BA43-806EA7CCAE14} - C:\WINDOWS\etlrlws.dll
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [awedpedp] C:\WINDOWS\system32\naxgxwbu.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Policies\Explorer\Run: [bZ76ULmU0g] C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\titkpyhg\vyzwdszw.exe
O21 - SSODL: bokpkov - {919071FA-540C-4492-BE14-79F7E72B24A1} - C:\WINDOWS\bokpkov.dll
O21 - SSODL: altvxvm - {360925C8-9CA2-4D10-9C9D-4DA09A5840FB} - C:\WINDOWS\altvxvm.dll
O24 - Desktop Component 0: Privacy Protection - file:///C:\WINDOWS\privacy_danger\index.htm

Note: SSODL modules can have random name(blue color) and some different clsid(red color), use google for check them.

Now close all browser and other windows except for HijackThis, and click “Fix Checked” to have HijackThis fix the entries you checked.

Open the SmitfraudFix folder and double-click smitfraudfix.cmd.
Press the number 2 on your keyboard and the press the enter key to choose the option Clean (safe mode recommended).

You will be prompted : “Registry cleaning - Do you want to clean the registry ?“; answer “Yes” by typing Y and press “Enter” in order to remove the Desktop background and clean registry keys associated with the infection.

The tool will now check if wininet.dll is infected. You may be prompted to replace the infected file (if found); answer “Yes” by typing Y and press “Enter”.

The tool may need to restart your computer to finish the cleaning process; if it doesn’t, please restart it into Normal Windows.

Close any open browsers. Double click on combofix.exe and follow the prompts.

Run CCleaner.

Click Analyze button. After scan your system, click Run Cleaner.

If everything seems to be good - pop ups are gone, no any redirects, then you should make a new restore point.Disable system restore to flush out infected restore points. Reboot your computer again. Turn on Windows System Restore. After that click START > ALL PROGRAMS > ACCESSORIES > SYSTEM TOOLS > SYSTEM RESTORE. click on “create new restore point” > click on NEXT and follow the prompts.

If you are still having problems with spyware after completing these instructions, maybe you have another version of the infection, then please follow the steps: How to use Spyware Removal Forum.

Hain · 12-28-2008, 08:37 PM

A new program to fight against malware of all kinds.

[ANCHOR]Sandboxie[/ANCHOR] (Homepage)(Filehippo)(5/5)(W) - "Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer." - Think of it as a condom for your computer. You get to do all that dirty stuff while still able to tie of that sandbox and throw it away--squeeky clean. I always run my browsers sandboxed. ([ANCHORLINK=Sandboxie]link here[/ANCHORLINK])

02-24-2005, 06:05 AM	#47 (permalink)
m0rpheus bad craziness Location: Guelph, Ontario	And TFP comes through for me once again! Thanks. __________________ "it never got weird enough for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

03-01-2005, 06:16 PM	#50 (permalink)
IC3 Poison Location: Canada	I just downloaded ad-aware and it found 49 objects. I'm not really sure how this works, I took the free version so does this mean i have to do manual updates? Manual scans? and does it work like anti virus and blocks anything that try's to get onto my system? Or do i have to scan like 5 times a day to keep my system cleaned? Thanks. __________________ "To win any battle, you must fight as if you were already dead" -Musashi

03-01-2005, 07:31 PM	#52 (permalink)
IC3 Poison Location: Canada	Thanks..I thought this was a program that i needed to keep open at all times. I have nothing bad to say about IE, This is the first time ever i have had spyware remover on this system (New) and never had it on my old computer (roughly 5 years)..And i have never really had any problems at all. I just thought i would get spyware remover just to be safe as this is a new system. Even on my old system i went atleast 2 years without anti virus and just a firewall, Then decided i should get some anti virus..got home scanned the whole system and it was clean __________________ "To win any battle, you must fight as if you were already dead" -Musashi Last edited by IC3; 03-01-2005 at 07:40 PM..

03-08-2005, 10:05 AM	#55 (permalink)
0energy0 Insane Location: Title Town, USA	I still keep getting pop-ups. I have wondows xp sp2, ad-aware se, pop-up stopper pro, and adware away. What else do I need? Everytime i place counter-strike, pop-ups keep coming up and i still don't know how to stop them. Is my computer hacked? __________________ Is the juice worth the squeeze?

03-08-2005, 10:38 AM	#56 (permalink)
ScottKuma Insane Location: Maineville, OH	You may have some malware running that a) doesn't get cleared/detected by your anti-spybot stuff b) is actually a virus. have you downloaded an AV program? Your only recourse in some cases is to rebuild the computer from scratch. Also, are you running from behind a firewall? If so - you don't have the DMZ turned on for your computer, do you? Some people do this to make gaming easier...but what it really does is put your computer -- naked, so to speak -- directly out on the net. __________________ A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take from you everything you have. -Gerald R. Ford GoogleMap Me

09-29-2004, 03:24 AM	#41 (permalink)
Scheme Tilted Location: Auckland, New Zealand	The best thing to do would be to use Mozilla Firefox http://www.mozilla.org I've been using this for months and I've had no spyware, I run ad aware and use Ie, and in about a week it's crawling with spyware. GET FIREFOX

10-11-2004, 10:07 AM	#42 (permalink)
scarface Upright	°°° I know those goods and they're a gift from heaven . Thx to the makers of them , and to the poster of this thread

12-12-2004, 03:04 AM	#43 (permalink)
Senor Roboto Crazy	alright so I downloaded and ran all four of those programs and I still have a couple of stupid things called Home Search and Extended Search that I can't get rid of in the add/remove program thing and won't leave after running these programs!

12-18-2004, 10:03 PM	#44 (permalink)
0energy0 Insane Location: Title Town, USA	i prefer adaware and bps spyware remover. its effective for me.

12-18-2004, 10:04 PM	#45 (permalink)
0energy0 Insane Location: Title Town, USA	also, upgrade to windows xp sp2

12-25-2004, 04:59 AM	#46 (permalink)
wgheow Upright Location: kuala lumpur, malaysia	woah...spybots everywhere..thanks guys for the help !

02-25-2005, 10:18 PM	#48 (permalink)
pattycakes Insane Location: bangor pa	microsoft antispyware beta

02-27-2005, 06:43 AM	#49 (permalink)
ScottKuma Insane Location: Maineville, OH	Another important thing, especially if you have broadband internet, is the use of a hardware/NAT firewall. It won't help with nastys that install themselves through IE/Firefox, but it will help against virus & popups sent in other ways (Windows Messenger, for example).

03-01-2005, 09:04 PM	#53 (permalink)
FloydianOne Crazy	Anyone else notice some sites have found ways around Firefox's popup blocker? Ive been getting a few popunders here and there recently.

03-01-2005, 09:09 PM	#54 (permalink)
pinoychink790 Loser Location: McDonald's Playland	all of those programs are so cool!!! unfortunately they can't remove the spyware on my pc right now

08-25-2005, 02:59 PM	#64 (permalink)
kel WARNING: FLAMMABLE Location: Ask Acetylene	My mother's computer is now protected. Thanks! __________________ "It better be funny"

04-03-2005, 10:02 PM	#58 (permalink)
the_dave Upright Location: Right Here	I feel good. I just cleaned my computer of any VD's with adware, spyware and pop up blockers. lifes good with a faster computer. __________________ Rock'n & Shock'n Baby!

05-04-2005, 02:57 PM	#61 (permalink)
eeef2 Upright Location: right here	http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ works best with internet explorer.. its the only time i ever use IE! the 6.0 beta version will clean viruses and spywares.

07-06-2005, 09:32 PM	#62 (permalink)
seven7 Tilted Location: flatlands	had the same problem, installed full mcafee suite and no problems

08-06-2005, 11:23 PM	#63 (permalink)
dpezzo Tilted	wow! nice info! I just wished I would have read this topic a week ago. had to do a factory restore of a pc at the office last week due to the popups and homepage hijacking, even after running adaware, and spybot s&d. thanks for the tips, will definitely come in handy next time...

04-09-2006, 03:38 PM	#65 (permalink)
gcurl21 Upright	Hi-Jack This works great if Adaware or Norton cant detect the spyware. Just choose what shouldnt be running

08-03-2006, 12:01 AM	#66 (permalink)
NotAnAlias Tilted Location: Auckland, New Zealand	I've found spybot, adaware and even hijack this to be ineffective against my recent incredibly stupid act. Long live ewido.

12-13-2006, 12:30 PM	#67 (permalink)
jusolson00 Tilted	Hi eveybody,, hope somebody can help me.. lately when surfing around the web and well truthfully around some adult sites, I go to click on a link and it will take me to a different site, but the page url iswww.accessbestpharmacy.com, but the actual website that loads is something different, so that when clinking on links in that site it will always bring up a google search for just random things.. I've used sypot, adaware, hijack this,, but seems to find nothing. Although when i used spybot, it found some www.accessbestpharmacy.com urls, but i delted them.. they never came back but i'm still having the same problem.... anybody else have this??? thanks for the help Last edited by jusolson00; 12-13-2006 at 01:20 PM..

05-02-2007, 07:22 PM	#68 (permalink)
Twizted Insane Location: Washington State	(Sigh) After years of being careful, I let my guard down and installed software from a questionable source and now I am greeted daily by some porn pop-up (even while IE and Firefox are closed) Thanks for this thread... hope I can scrub this one out... Jason __________________ A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. -- Emo Philips

05-10-2007, 07:38 AM	#69 (permalink)
Temporary_User Psycho	Im having similar problems as jusolson00. for me ad-aware doesnt seem to want to finish running. that or it pauses halfway for an extremely long time... even with tfproject.org, i have to type that into the search, then click the link. f i type it into my address bar, it says page not found. Advice would be appreciated!

07-07-2007, 12:12 PM	#70 (permalink)
boink Addict Location: Seattle	my homepage got hijacked a while back and after a frustrating effort to fix it I just deleted the shortcut to IE onthe desktop and drag/dropped the homepage link to Comcast to the desktop where the IE shortcut used to be. may be a ghetto solution but it works for me...any reason why it's a bad solution ? the hijacker was this : es://shdocpl.dll/blank.htm < don't click on this !

12-28-2008, 08:37 PM	#72 (permalink)
Hain has a plan Location: middle of Whywouldanyonebethere	A new program to fight against malware of all kinds. [ANCHOR]Sandboxie[/ANCHOR] (Homepage)(Filehippo)(5/5)(W) - "Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer." - Think of it as a condom for your computer. You get to do all that dirty stuff while still able to tie of that sandbox and throw it away--squeeky clean. I always run my browsers sandboxed. ([ANCHORLINK=Sandboxie]link here[/ANCHORLINK])